90th Anniversary Running Of The Le Mans 24 Hours, 22-23 June 2013.
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Exactly, last year was so disappointing compared to the last audi Pug battle
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Just gonna play devil's advocate here - hear me out, and I want to hear your thoughts.
It's been clear that ALMS and ACO/FIA don't get on too well, made clearer when FIA shunned the Petit Le Mans as an official round of the WEC and made a seperate race at Circuit of the Americas.
Now this year at Le Mans, the ALMS GTE teams have for the most part been penalised with performance restrictions (Corvette, Viper SRT) or banned altogether (BMW RLL). Whereas by contrast, the WEC GTE teams such as Porsche, Aston Martin and AF Corse are flying.
Is this a coincidence? Are there some political wrangling going on do we think?
I don't necessarily think this, I'm curious to know what you all think of it.
It's been clear that ALMS and ACO/FIA don't get on too well, made clearer when FIA shunned the Petit Le Mans as an official round of the WEC and made a seperate race at Circuit of the Americas.
Now this year at Le Mans, the ALMS GTE teams have for the most part been penalised with performance restrictions (Corvette, Viper SRT) or banned altogether (BMW RLL). Whereas by contrast, the WEC GTE teams such as Porsche, Aston Martin and AF Corse are flying.
Is this a coincidence? Are there some political wrangling going on do we think?
I don't necessarily think this, I'm curious to know what you all think of it.
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That Audi commercial should be R-Rated... 
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Hearing that driver's name, Di Grassi, has made me realise something.
If that was your last name, it'd be wrong to have a kid and name them Noel.
Because then the name written formally would be: Di Grassi, Noel.
JFK shooting in case you didn't realise.
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#8 in the pits. Keeps his slicks.
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Yeah, that'd be nice. On the other hand, I guess I've got to be glad to see BMW running in the DTM again...
I don't really thing that there was a lot of politics involved. As pointed out by the commentators, the regulations seem to differ between the different series, so that's the main reason. Adapting to different regulations might very well cause a drop in performance...
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P1s shaking their tails. They're running on slicks and track is pretty wet on some sectors.
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May be time to ditch the slicks soon
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This is gonna be fun.
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#7 in the pits. Let's see if Lapierre gets new tyres.
Lapierre gets new...SLICKS!!!
Lapierre gets new...SLICKS!!!
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That #30 car is gorgeous.
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Wow that Toyota had some major back end grip loss.
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I don't know about that - when the FIA first aunched the calendar and only included one American round on it, they made it pretty clear that they didn't want the series to be too dependent on ALMS for its survival. Likewise, they didn't want the series to be seen as trying to hijack the ALMS, so they made a conscious decision to limit the series to one American round, and chose Sebring as the nominated race. If they had taken Petit Le Mans, then Sebring would not have been included.
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